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Sand Surprise

March 18, 2021 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

‘When British mathematician Clive Humby said ‘Data is the new oil‘ back in 2006, he meant that data, like oil, must be refined and transformed to make it into useful products and services.’

Tim O’Reilly quoted this to open his recent article Data Is the New Sand for The Information. He concluded that data isn’t oil, it’s more like sand.

And that got me thinking, as I suspect O’Reilly wanted: his very first line was that ‘The metaphors we use are like a map. They can guide us or lead us astray.’

Sand Martins surprised me many years ago.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: alfred korzybski, birds, clive humby, moore's law, photos, tim o'reilly

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